On Christmas Eve we got our family pictures taken by Cristin before heading over to the dome for some Christmas Even fun! She did a REALLY good job and I love them all!!! Unfortunately they are too big to upload to the blog - or for some other reason won't load…? I'm not very technical, so maybe when we get it sorted out they can be in another post!
At the dome we went out on the pond and got pulled around behind the tractor - Charlie really liked it! We also had traditional clam chowder and unwrapped presents from Nana and Papa. The older kids could steal, but luckily no one could steal Charlie's awesome little wooden bus! He loves that thing…
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| Charlie was SO EXCITED about this tractor! |
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| Riding behind! |
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| Charlie loved seeing the horses! |
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| Cousins! Charlie and Nellie |
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| We have a family tradition of going to the Spruce Grove live nativity pageant, then driving down candy cane lane after! |
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| Onsie family picture - Mary had a giant one that Andrew donned for this picture! |
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| Matching onsies! |
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| Charlie was quite helpful Christmas morning - he would go and pick a present out from under the tree, then he'd take it to grandpa who would look at the tag and tell Charlie who the present was for! Then Charlie would hand it to that person. It worked well until Charlie insisted every present was for Mary… or then Amy... |
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| Opening presents! |
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| Aunt Amy gave Charlie a rock sucker for breakfast! Trying to go for favourite aunt... |
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| Elly and Aunt Mary |
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| Charlie trying on Aunt Amy's boots! |
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| Shannon and Alex took us out for lunch - with no babies! It was delightful! |
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| On December 29 we celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary! |
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| Cute! |
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| Charlie's first time tobogganing! |
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| Tobogganing! |
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| Happy New Years! Andrews family usually has an early family party for the kids so that they can do a countdown too! After the kids party we went back to my parents place to play games and eat yummy food! |
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| This was taken right before we left to go to the airport to travel home! |
And just as a side note - I officially HATE flying! So, we left on a Sunday at night which was great. Charlie unfortunately started having diarrhea earlier in the day and went through some pairs of pants… so we thought we'd better pack extras which we needed before we even boarded! Our first flight was from Edmonton to Vancouver, and on it Charlie was being so whiney! Eventually he said his tummy hurt… and then he barfed! 5 times or so and that is a short flight! He hates barfing in anything (bucket, bowl, barf bag…) so while I was watching him like a hawk waiting for a sign barf was coming, when it did come and I was trying to hold the bag in front of him he was simultaneously trying to push it away! Oh dear…. by the end there was barf on him, on me, on his seat and on my seat. Luckily we gave him some gravol when we landed and there was no more barfing! I never want to fly with children again… which obviously isn't going to happen...
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| These two pictures from the photoshoot were small enough upload - just so you can get an idea of their cuteness! |
So adorable!
Well that rounds up the year of 2015!! And a little bit extra too….
